Giving a second chance to a building is, for sure, an actual topic.

The aim is to avoid new concreting, focusing instead on the existing

construction, reclassifying it and bringing it to a new life.

The redevelopment of the actual building for commercial, residential

and directional use, can be summarized in "urban regeneration",

because it represents the chance to face some typical problems of

settlement textures that need to be recovered.

The goal it to redevelop the front of the existing buildings in a

well-coordinated way with the design of the new buildings, obtaining a

balanced and unique style of urban quality, destined to resonate

itself and to bring redevelopment and regeneration to the surrounding

housing area, with the realization of a sort of continuum of

covered/uncovered pedestrian crossovers equipped with the connection

green areas, also with ecological function, between the town main

street and a high-density quarter.

So a portico is inserted at the ground floor, with a facade above on

the existing building, placed on two points for giving more free space

to the inhabitants. The presence of this structurally "suspended"

facade implicates the substitution of all the glass windows of the

ground floor. So they need to be inserted sequentially all along the

shop, and they permit the presence of an iron structure between a

window/door and another.

The facade will be in polycarbonate, a material chosen for its

lightness and transparency, and will be sustained by a galvanized

steel structured going through the North and West sides, and will

permit also an energy redevelopment of the building, behaving as a

element that is really strong from the architectural point of view and

that is able to protect the fronts and the inner spaces of the

building from the direct sunrays, avoiding the summer overheating.

Year 2017

Work started in 2017

Work finished in 2017

Main structure Steel

Client privato

Status Completed works

Type Business Centers / Showrooms/Shops / Interior Design / Building Recovery and Renewal